Embalming and cooling apparatus



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E. D. WHIPPLE.

EMBALMING AND COOLING APPARATUS. No. 434,368. Patented Aug. 12, 1890.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE D. \VHIPPLE, OF CRESTON, IOWVA.

EMBALMING AND COOLING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,368, dated August 12, 1890.

Application filed September 16 1889. Serial No. 324,139. (lIo model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE D. WHIPPLE, of Creston, in the county ofUnion and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved UndertakersEmbalming and Cooling Apparatus, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of aprangemen ts, and combinationsof elements, to

be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures and letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an inverted plan view of my embalming and cooling apparatus,the parts being represented as they appear when folded fortransportation. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the apparatus, the partsbeing represented as they appear when the corpse to be operated upon issmall. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the apparatus, the upper rackbeing adjusted to an incline, while the lower rack is adjusted to ahorizontal posit-ion, resting, however, in a plane above that occupiedby the main frame. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the apparatus, theupper and lower boards being turned up on edge, and Fig. 5 is aperspective view representing the upper and lower racks as they appearwhen both are adjusted at an angle to the main frame.

In the drawings, 10 represents the main frame of the apparatus, to whichthere are pivotally connected legs 11 and 1.1, that are held bypivotally mounted and slotted side braces 12. In the sides of the frame10 there are formed grooves, in which I fit slats 13. The ends of theslats 13 are connected by a cross-piece 14, to which there is hinged aleg 15, which may be moved to the position in which it is shown in Figs.2 to 5, inclusive, or folded down, as represented in Fig. 1. At thecorners of the frame formed by the strips 13 and the cross-strips 14, Iarrange straps 16, which are shaped to form sockets for canopystandards17, other straps 16 being in like manner secured to the corners of theframe 10 and arranged to form sockets for other canopy-standards 17.

Upon the main and extension frame arranged as above described I mount anupper slatted tray 20, to which there are connected two. angular slottedhead-block supports 21,

such supports being carried by a rod or shaft 22, which passes throughapertures formed at the apices of the supports 2l,and through bracketscarried by the upper cross-piece of the slatted tray 20, one end of theshaft or rod being engaged by a binding-nut 23,which, if turned home tobear against its head-block support, will hold said support at anydesired angle. The arms of the supports 21 are slotted, and throughthese slots there are passed pins 24, which extend outward fromtheheadblock 27, the arrangement being such that the head-block may beadjusted to any position desired.

In order that the tray 20 may be raised, so as to extend at an anglefrom the frame 10, I provide a support 25, the lower end of which has apivotal connection with the frame 10, its upper end being provided withclampingfingers, which engage rack-bars formed on the sides of the tray,in a manner most clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 5 of the drawings.

Between the slats of the tray 20, I arrange other slats, which enterinto the make-up of a lower tray 30, the lower end of said tray beingheld by set-screws 31 to strips 32, that are held to slide in slotsformed in the crosspiece 14, the arrangement being such that if thestrips he slid up, as represented in Fig. 3, and the set-screw 31 turnedhome the lower end of the tray 30 will be supported, as representedinthe figure last referred to; or the strips 32 may be slid.down, asrepresented in Fig. 5, and then, if the set-screws be turned home, thetray will be supported in the position in which it is shown or in anyinterme diate position. The outer slats of the trays 20 and 30 areslotted, as shown at a and b, and through these slots there are passedtwo short bolts 33, and by turning home these bolts the trays may besupported, as represented in Fig. 3.

From the description above given it will be seen that the apparatus maybe adjusted to any position required, and that it may be folded so as tooccupy a minimum amount of space when it becomes necessary to transportthe apparatus from place to place.

To prevent the slipping of the corpse from the apparatus, I provide thetray 30 with a hinged foot-piece 35, which may be folded to the positionin which it is shown in Fig. 4 or to the position in which it is shownin Figs. 2 and 3.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In an embalming and cooling apparatus, thecombination, with a supporting-frame, of the two slatted adjustabletrays, one sliding in the other, and their outer slats hating the slotsa and b, and bolts 33, which lie in said slots and serve to clamp andhold the trays in any lengthwise adjustment, as shown and described.

2. In an embalming and cooling apparatus, the combination, with the mainlegged frame and the extensible frame having a leg and sliding on themain frame, of the upper slatted tray and its adjustable support 25, thelower slatted tray 30, sliding on the former, means for securing saidtrays together when adjusted lengthwise or at different angles to eachother, as specified, and a vertically-adjust-able support for the outerend of said lower tray, substantially as shown and described.

3. In an embalming and cooling apparatus, the combination, with asupporting-frame and the connected trays and 30, of the ad just-ablehead-block having lateral pins 24, the angular and slotted supports 21,the rod 22, passing through the apices of the latter and serving tohinge them to the tray, and a binding-nut 23 for holding the supports 21at any desired angle, as shown and described.

4. In an embalming and cooling apparatus, the combination, with a mainframe, of an extensible frame, a slatted tray 20, a headblock adjustablyheld thereto, a swinging support 25, also connected thereto, a lowerslatted tray 30, clamping-bolts 33, which pass through slots formed inthe tray-slats, strips 32, that are connected to the cross-piece of thestrips 13, and clamping-screws 31, carried by the tray and arranged toengage the strips, substantially as described.

EUGENE D. \VIIIPPLE.

Witnesses:

\V. F. PATT, \V. II. Rona.

